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Saints Row: The Third Gameplay Trailer

Volition promised to make Saints Row: The Third the most ridiculous, over-the-top experience in gaming, and today we get our first look at what that means. It can be surmised by an action captured in the title's first gameplay demo: assaulting a homeless person with a giant purple dildo.

From the get go, Volition makes it clear Saints Row: The Third will be Grand Theft Auto without the cops, as the demoer's first actions are to beat down two prostitutes, pummel homeless people with the aforementioned over-sized sex toy, and vaporize passersby with one of the game's powerful new weapons, the Apocafist. All this goes down without a single siren being heard. And that's just the beginning. See below:

Saints Row: The Third is being developed for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Windows PCs. The game is set for launch on November 15.

Sharkey says: I've got a feeling Saints Row: The Third will be bumped back from that 11/15 launch. Battlefield 3 ships October 25, Uncharted 3 11/1, Modern Warfare 3 11/8, Skyrim 11/11, Halo Anniversary 11/15, and Assassin's Creed Revelations TBA in November. That's six huge games within three weeks of Saints Row, and I don't think that's a big enough window for the game to stand out on its own. We shall see. So what did you think of the ridiculous gameplay trailer?